/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

The studio I've had for the past five years has been part of a project, operating on the boundary between reality and fiction, where I've been posing as a gallery-runner who's continuously working on getting his venue up and running (my studio is 200 square meters with a store-front, on a high street,) gaining some renownment among other gallery workers and the director of the local art museum, and seen as an asset by many in the local art community. In addition, I've been advertising commissions, given secret tutorials at the local art academy, was a board member for a open studio fair, and the past year I've been tutoring amateur painters in my studio.

The time has come for me to move out of my current studio, and I see this as a logical point to finalise the project, moving the content from a commercial website and presenting it as a work of art on my portfolio website. To summarize, I've created a whole situation surrounding my artistic practice, occupying space rather than showing much "real" work. Now I want to transform what most people have believed to be a failed artist-run gallery space and studio, and reveal it as a demonstration of a real-world institutional critique piece, centered around the building that houses my studio, with strong notions of personal doubt and avoidance when forced to confront the bastardized art world of post-modernism. I want the audience to adopt the work as an attempt to cast light on the problem our culture is facing when artists who found themselves interested in art for the sake of producing magnificent paintings, end up making incomprehensible gender-issue bullshit, void of aesthetic beauty, due to their formal marxist education.

Any thoughts?

Pic Related, it's my studio during an exhibition of sculptural photography by a local artist.